James Clark cofounded Netscape in 1994 and sold it to AOL four years later. He has since multiplied his wealth through timely tech investments. He got in early on Apple, Facebook, Twitter and Palantir. The former Stanford professor now oversees another startup, CommandScape, which seeks to help automate and secure homes. He also collects art and wine, including an 18,000-bottle Burgundy collection he calls his "liquid asset." An ocean lover, Clark's yachts include the 300-foot sailing yacht Athena and the 100-foot racing sailboat Comanche. He was the key financial backer of the Japanese dolphin hunting documentary, "The Cove," as well as the namesake behind Stanford's James H. Clark Bio-X Center, a 146,000-square-foot research complex. He is married to Kristy Hinze, a former Sports Illustrated model. More »

It might not be rivalling Apple's iPhone for sales, but Google's Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones have seen a favorable critical response from the industry. It now appears that the handsets are meeting analysts’ sales expectations for the last quarter of 2016. That bodes well for the continued success of Pixel in 2017, and offers consumers a new read »

About once a week my wife utters those four special words to me: “Is the Internet broken?” What she means by this is that she is having a problem connecting to the Wi-Fi, mostly because she has been moving around the house with her devices. Years ago, families sat around the radio together in one room for entertainment but today’s families are read »

In his influential 1962 book, Capitalism and Freedom, economist Milton Friedman argued that there is “one and only one social responsibility of business–to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase profits.” Any obligation to social good was up to private shareholders. Executives with a conscience who cared read »

One of the most hotly anticipated names in the mobile world is set to return next year. The Nokia name will return to the smartphone in the first half of 2017, and will be using Google's Android operating system. The news was confirmed by HMD Global’s CEO Arto Nummela:

With less than a month left in 2016 and only a few months removed from the release of the iPhone 7, the fanboys are already frothing at the mouth for the iPhone 8. With a delicious plate of early rumors already being served, one has to wonder if these rumors will stay hot and fresh or wilt under the heat lamps. Will Android users read »

may be famed for its Reality Distortion Field but, as increasing numbers of iPhones fall victim to a serious battery problem I first reported last week, the Chinese government has dismissed Apple’s attempts to downplay the situation and attacked the company for failing to “meet basic consumer needs for normal wireless communication.” read »

Taking a look back at seven days of news and headlines across the world of Android, this week’s Android Circuit includes leaks on the Samsung Galaxy S8 specifications, a new selfie camera for the South Korean flagship, the momentum is building behind the Google Pixel, the return of the Nokia brand to the smartphone world, Samsung Pay’s UK read »

This week saw HMD Global step out into the public limelight. In the eyes of many, the Finnish start-up has been handed a national treasure and given the herculean task of rejuvenating the brand and bringing the smartphone home to Finland. The story of HMD, a new Nokia smartphone, and millions of patiently waiting fans worldwide has begun. read »

Some of the most profound changes in the world happen so slowly that they don’t make the front page. In less than a generation we have shifted from libraries to Google searches, from landlines to cellphones, and from books and CDs to eBooks and streaming. This “new normal” was never declared on the front page of the newspapers. You and I learned read »

Right now is not having a good time of things. The iPhone 6S has been hit by #batterygate with even the Chinese government accusing Apple of downplaying a wider problem, iPhone sales continue to slow according to suppliers and pressure is building on a heavily leaked and radically redesigned 2017 iPhone to deliver. But now the iPhone 7 is read »

By working on both hardware and software in unison, the company hopes its new Pixel and Pixel XL phones can take on Apple and the mighty iPhone at its own game: premium hardware, brilliant camera, optimised software and (unlike all Android partners) a stream of fast, reliable updates.